Sales Account Executive
Position: Sales Account Executive
Available: October 17, 2014
Department: Sales
Hiring Manager: Wayne Reid
POSITION SUMMARY:
Make your mark in Broadcasting. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies in the nation, programming 167 stations located in 77 geographically diverse markets after pending transactions. Our success is the result of extraordinary employees and an exemplary management team who believes in a vision and is dedicated to making Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. a communications powerhouse. We are advancing the world of Broadcasting and we want YOU to join our winning team!
WBMA are seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated Account Executive to sell commercial advertising time to local businesses and advertising agencies.
QUALIFICATIONS: Your responsibilities will include:
· Handle outside sales calls
· Prospect customers and lead generation
· Attract and close advertisers to sell products and services via TV
· Provide input on sales promotion ideas to sales management
· Retain current business and develop new business contacts
· Present marketing/advertising ideas to area businesses
· Sell commercial advertising time and other station products to local advertisers
· Attain budgeted revenue goals through effective solicitations, promotions and service
· Understand the business objectives and advertising strategies of clients and find ways to help them achieve their objectives through effective advertising
Qualifications: Strong organizational, written and presentation skills
· Competitive, energetic and self-starter
· Ability to overcome objections
· Outside media sales experience preferred but not required
· Enjoy a fast paced environment with a desire to win
· Professional appearance a must
Our Account Executives are some of the highest commissioned sales people in the industry. If you are interested in selling some of the best media in Birmingham Alabama, we want to hear from you!
If you have the required experience and skills, please apply online, at www.sbgi.net. Sinclair Broadcast Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug Free Workplace.
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace!
Please no telephone inquiries. It is the Station’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, national, origin, sex, or other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state or local law, in all personnel actions including recruitment, evaluation, selection, promotion, compensation, training and termination. Also it is the Station’s policy to promote the realization of equal employment opportunity through a positive, continuing program of specific practices designed to ensure the full realization of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex and any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.
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